The 1870s · paranormal events
The Spooky Valley archive holds 56 documented paranormal cases during the 1870s. The earliest dates to 1870 and the most recent to 1879, a span of 9 years.
Reporting during the 1870s is led by the haunting, with 25 hauntings, 9 apparition reports and 8 cryptid encounters on file. Of these, 24 are verified against primary-source documentation. Every entry below records what was reported and the sources behind it, rather than asserting a conclusion.
Featured · 1870s
Sleeping Bear Dunes Apparition
Empire, Michigan, USA
Among the windswept Lake Michigan dunes northwest of Traverse City, a figure described as a watching woman has been reported by hikers, lighthouse keepers, and Coast Guard crews for more than a century.
HMS Eurydice and the Phantom on the Solent
Sandown Bay, Isle of Wight, England
After a Royal Navy training frigate capsized in a sudden snow squall off the Isle of Wight in March 1878, generations of sailors and coastal observers have reported a square-rigged sailing vessel appearing in the same waters before vanishing on close approach.
Fairmount Children's Home
Salem, Ohio, USA
An abandoned Victorian orphanage in eastern Ohio has drawn paranormal investigators and trespassers for decades, with reports of disembodied children's voices, footsteps, and apparitions in long-empty corridors.
Archive · 1870s
- 1870 Apparition The Ghost of Eastbourne Pier Eastbourne, East Sussex, England
- 1870 Apparition The Galloping Ghost of Laramie Laramie, Wyoming, USA
- 1870 Haunting Ribblehead Viaduct: Ghosts of the Navvies Ribblehead, North Yorkshire, England
- 1870 Apparition The Vanishing Hitchhiker Phenomenon Worldwide
- 1870 Haunting Wolf Rock Lighthouse Cornwall, England, United Kingdom
- 1871 Apparition Wilmington Ghost Lights Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
- 1871 Haunting Royal Albert Hall: Echoes of Victorian Grandeur Kensington Gore, London, England
- 1872 Haunting Aberystwyth University Old College Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales
- 1872 Cryptid Canada's Ogopogo Lake Okanagan, British Columbia, Canada
- 1872 Cryptid Ogopogo Lake Okanagan, British Columbia, Canada
- 1872 Cryptid Ogopogo: The Lake Monster of Okanagan Okanagan Lake, British Columbia, Canada
- 1872 Haunting Greyfriars Bobby Statue: The Ghostly Skye Terrier Edinburgh, Scotland
- 1872 Other The Mary Celeste: Ghost Ship Atlantic Ocean, near the Azores
- 1872 Other The Mary Celeste Atlantic Ocean
- 1872 Haunting Middlewood Hospital Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England
- 1872 Cryptid Ogopogo: Canada's Lake Monster Okanagan Lake, British Columbia, Canada
- 1872 Cryptid Ogopogo - Lake Monster of Okanagan Okanagan Lake, British Columbia, Canada
- 1872 Cryptid Okanagan Lake's Ogopogo British Columbia, Canada
- 1872 Other The Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire, USA
- 1872 Other The Mary Celeste: History's Most Famous Ghost Ship Atlantic Ocean, near Azores
- 1872 Other The Ghost Ship Mary Celeste Atlantic Ocean
- 1872 Haunting Pleasley Colliery Pleasley, Derbyshire, England
- 1873 Haunting Albert Bridge Phantom Soldiers: The Eternal March Across the Thames Chelsea, London, England
- 1873 Haunting Whittingham Hospital Lancashire, England
- 1874 Cryptid The Man-Eating Tree of Madagascar Madagascar
- 1874 Haunting Newsham Park Hospital Liverpool, Merseyside, England
- 1874 Haunting St. Augustine Lighthouse St. Augustine, Florida, USA
- 1875 Apparition The Croglin Grange Vampire Croglin, Cumbria, England
- 1875 Apparition Croglin Vampire Croglin, Cumbria, England
- 1875 Apparition The Croglin Vampire Croglin, Cumberland, England
- 1875 Haunting The Ghosts of the Grand Hotel Eastbourne Eastbourne, East Sussex, England
- 1875 Apparition Sleeping Bear Dunes Apparition Empire, Michigan, USA
- 1876 Cryptid Alton Giant Skeleton Discovery Alton, Illinois, USA
- 1876 Haunting West Virginia Penitentiary Moundsville, West Virginia, USA
- 1876 Haunting Jerome Ghost Town Arizona, United States
- 1876 Other Kentucky Meat Shower Bath County, Kentucky, USA
- 1876 Haunting Moundsville Prison Moundsville, West Virginia, USA
- 1876 Haunting Moundsville State Penitentiary Moundsville, West Virginia, USA
- 1876 Haunting Moundsville Penitentiary Moundsville, West Virginia, United States
- 1877 Other Edgar Cayce Hopkinsville, Kentucky / Virginia Beach, Virginia
- 1877 Possession Lurancy Vennum: The Watseka Wonder Watseka, Illinois, USA
- 1877 Possession The Watseka Wonder Watseka, Illinois, USA
- 1877 Haunting Tombstone Arizona, United States
- 1877 Possession The Watseka Wonder: Mary Lurancy Vennum Watseka, Illinois, USA
- 1877 Possession The Watseka Wonder: Lurancy Vennum Case Watseka, Illinois, USA
- 1878 Apparition HMS Eurydice and the Phantom on the Solent Sandown Bay, Isle of Wight, England
- 1878 Haunting Danvers State Hospital Massachusetts, USA
- 1878 Haunting Fairmount Children's Home Salem, Ohio, USA
- 1878 Haunting Leeds Grand Theatre: The Phantom Stagehand New Briggate, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
- 1878 Poltergeist The Great Amherst Mystery: Canada's Most Violent Poltergeist Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada
- 1878 Poltergeist The West Tarring Poltergeist West Tarring, West Sussex, England
- 1878 Possession The Louisa Vennum Spirit Communication Watseka, Illinois, USA
- 1878 Haunting The Princess Alice Disaster - Thames' Deadliest Day River Thames, London, England
- 1879 Haunting Cambridge Military Hospital Aldershot, Hampshire, England
- 1879 Haunting The Ghost of King's Mill, Shipley Shipley, West Sussex, England
- 1879 Haunting The Tay Bridge Disaster: Scotland's Phantom Train and the 75 Lost Souls Dundee, Scotland